11-08-2020, 08:42 PM
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Simmons>Russ •
If your reducing games to 72 per season then you have to have fines for load management.
I don’t like load management but I totally understand it. If your a top 10 player on a top team then I understand you want to have more rest of your not needed that way your fitter and fresher for the playoffs.
So instead they should force fines, if you miss 10% of your teams games then you lose 10% of your salary. So for example if Kawhi Leonard sits out 7 games he loses about 3 mil. If he was to sit out 14 games he loses 6mil.
This would be a great common ground. Players want less games and what they do now is load manage. If the NBA reduces the amount of games then that should reduce the need to load manage. If players shoes they need more rest then they get fined accordingly.
A little harsh, but it makes sense in a star driven league. I've been at AAC for LAL/GSW where fans would be disappointed that their Lebron/Curry didn't get to play. Arenas not only make money from the home team, but visiting teams where the Phoenix Suns fan whose living in Plano, wants to see their Devin Booker play.
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DynamiteAdams •
I don’t know about yinz but I kinda hate January- February when stars rest randomly and others suffer overuse injuries an 82 games schedule brings. I’d rather have a less amount of games where the players are fresher. Baseball has 162 games and half the time you forget it’s on. Football is popular because teams play basically once a week on the same day (with minor exceptions) making it a big event. I just think if you make it so no team plays more than 3 games a week on less games it would be more watched due to scarcity and improved product.
Hard to argue against this, because precisely makes the games more valuable to watch. Almost everyone in this board is desperate for free agency action, and gonna be more desperate to see how the roster looks in live games.
This serves both, star players to rest enough to play every game (DIRK ALWAYS HATED B2B GAMES) and forces fans to appreciate/value the games much more than before.
Baseball with 162 games is difficult to appreciate every ball . game . inning. pitch. hit . save . bottom of the 5th and its already 9pm.